Key words : austin navigation
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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has called on China to engage in talks to avoid unintended clashes between the two countries' militaries.
Austin delivered a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday. The meeting discusses security issues in Asia.
Amid China's escalating maritime activities in the South China Sea, Austin said the United States will continue to work with its allies and partners to uphold the freedom of navigation and overflight.
On the Taiwan issue, he warned that conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating. He said that deterrence is strong today, and it is his country's job to keep it that way.
Austin said, "The United States does not seek a new Cold War. And competition must not spill over into conflict."
He added that open lines of communication with China are essential, as the more the two countries talk, the more they can avoid the "misunderstandings and miscalculations that could lead to crisis or conflict."
Ahead of the dialogue, China declined a US request for a meeting between Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu.
The two exchanged greetings at a dinner the previous day. But the US Defense Department says they did not have a "substantive exchange."
Key words : emergency meeting satellite request
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The United Nations Security Council has failed to agree on a concerted response to North Korea's attempt to launch what it calls a military reconnaissance satellite.
The council held an emergency meeting on Friday at the request of Japan, the United States and other countries.
Multiple participants condemned Pyongyang for Wednesday's launch. They said the use of ballistic missile technology is a serious violation of Security Council resolutions.
Japan's UN ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro said the launch was a violation regardless of whether it carried a military satellite or was successful or not.
Robert Wood, a diplomat from the US mission to the UN, said permanent council members China and Russia are defending North Korea, which has repeatedly conducted missile launches.
He said Russia and China "argue that a Council product or even holding a Council meeting are provocative actions."
China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, Geng Shuang, blamed the US for raising military tensions around the Korean Peninsula. He said the US has ignored the concerns of other countries and fully served its own geopolitical interests.
And Russia's deputy permanent representative to the UN Anna Evstigneeva criticized the US and South Korea for holding joint live-fire drills and destabilizing the region.
Key words : Biden potential default
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US President Joe Biden says an economic crisis was averted with the passage of a bill to suspend the federal government's debt ceiling, just days before a potential default.
Biden addressed the public from the White House's Oval Office on Friday.
His Democratic administration continued negotiations with the Republican Party until they finally agreed to temporarily remove the government's borrowing limit until January 2025.
The House of Representatives approved the bill on Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday.
Biden said he will sign the bill into law on Saturday.
He said that if the bill had not been passed, there would have been a first-ever default in the country's 247-year history, and that would have been a catastrophe.
Biden said of the bipartisan deal that "No one got everything they wanted but the American people got what they needed." He said the country "averted an economic crisis, an economic collapse."
It was Biden's first address from the Oval Office since taking office. Reuters news agency reports that US presidents generally reserve an address from the Oval Office for the most significant and dramatic events. President George W. Bush addressed the nation from the venue after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Biden apparently wants to highlight that he successfully overcame a historic situation as he seeks a second term.
Key words : aich wakayama hamamatsu
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Heavy rain continued from Friday through Saturday morning in Japan, bringing record rainfall to several parts of the country. The Meteorological Agency is calling on people to remain alert for landslides and swollen rivers.
Police in the central prefecture of Aichi say a man was found on Friday in a submerged car. He was later confirmed dead.
At least two people are missing in the western prefecture of Wakayama. One was swept away on a flooded road. The other was caught in a swollen river. There are also multiple reports of injuries nationwide.
A landslide destroyed a house in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. A man who lives there is unaccounted for.
Also in Shizuoka, residents of Iwata are busy cleaning up after a river in the city overflowed.
Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services have resumed as of Saturday noon. Most flights are operating normally.
The heavy rain has passed its peak in many areas, but it has loosened the ground and raised the water levels of rivers in many places.
Key words : passenger train 233 900
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Two passenger trains have collided in eastern India, killing at least 233 people.
Local media say the disaster occurred in the state of Odisha on Friday evening when one train derailed. Another train on the nearby track crashed into the overturned carriages.
Officials say about 900 passengers have been injured. Rescue crews are searching for people among the wreckage.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter that his thoughts are with the bereaved families.
The Associated Press says several hundred accidents occur every year on India's railways, the world's largest network managed by a single entity.
Key words : university student new york
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Hundreds of thousands of university students and other protestors took to the streets 34 years ago and raised hopes of bringing democracy to China. But the movement in Tiananmen Square was crushed in a hail of gunfire. Now, many of those same protestors are trying to build new momentum in New York.
Student demonstrators who are now living in the US opened an exhibit on Friday to tell of the events of June 4, 1989. They have gathered what they call "evidence" -- a bloody shirt, ripped banners and other items -- that show in stark terms the violence of the crackdown.
Their goal is to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives.
Chinese officials say more than 300 people died in the crackdown, but others estimate the number could be higher.
Authorities imposed a national-security law in Hong Kong in 2020 and seized items from a similar exhibit there the following year.
Organizers in the US are determined to carry on the mission.
Exhibition organizer Wang Dan, who joined the protest as a student leader and then left China says "the whole Western civilization faces the challenge from the CCP . So now it's very important to understand or to have a deeper understanding of China."
Wang added that he wants visitors to remember the democratic dream of the Chinese people as they experienced it 34 years ago.
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